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The Joanne Avison Podcast

The Joanne Avison Podcast is a journey into Spiritual Science, examining the sacred geometry of human form and motion and how the Fascia Matrix changes all we thought we knew about human bodies. Reflecting on her rich experience as a movement and manual therapy practitioner, Certified Archetypal Consultant, ordained minister and Doctor of Spiritual Science; Joanne challenges our assumptions of human anatomy, and asks us to consider the "Humans Being" as intimately relating "soma to soul" such that

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27:28

Sacred Geometry - How The Icosahedron Shapes Your...

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/05/22

What if the shape of water was also the shape of life itself? In this episode of the Sacred Geometry mini-series, Joanne Avison explores the icosahedron: the geometry of water, flow, fascia, and living form. From soap bubbles and spheres to Fibonacci, pi, tensegrity, and the liquid crystal nature of the human body, this conversation reveals why the icosahedron sits at the heart of the living fascial matrix, and how its geometry shapes the way we move, breathe, adapt, and experience reality it...

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26:25

Sacred Geometry: The Hexahedron and the Geometry of...

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/05/15

What if the geometry of the cube was a transient aspect of you before you were even an embryo? In this episode of the Sacred Geometry mini-series, Joanne explores the hexahedron: the geometry of earth, embodiment, and the earliest sacred geometric patterns of human form… You’ll discover: Why the cube appears briefly during the earliest human developmentHow the body grows through geometric patterns rather than mechanical onesThe deeper symbolic meaning of “earth” within sacred geometryHo...

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24:16

Sacred Geometry: The Tetrahedron and the Beginning of...

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/05/08

What is the simplest structure the body can form… and why does it matter for movement, fascia, and transformation? Joanne continues this popular new Sacred Geometry mini-series by exploring the first true three-dimensional form: the tetrahedron. Following on from the previous episode on zero, this conversation moves from potential into form. Joanne explains how four points create the first possible volume in space, and why this shape is not just mathematical, but deeply relevant to the living...

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17:06

Sacred Geometry: The Missing Link Between Fascia and...

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/05/01

What is the missing link between fascia and form… and how does sacred geometry help us understand the body more clearly? Following the popularity of previous episodes on this topic, and in response to so many questions from you, this new mini-series revisits sacred geometry in a deeper way. Join Joanne as she explores the fascinating geometric principles that underpin the human body, beginning with the concept of zero, the often-overlooked starting point from which all form emerges. Rat...

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47:57

Refine In Action: How to Move Well Without Forcing It

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/04/24

What if moving well isn’t about doing more… but feeling more? In this episode Joanne Avison and Paul Thornley explore the final step in their five-part fascia-focused prehab approach to movement. This conversation brings the series together by challenging one of the biggest assumptions in training: that repetition and effort lead to better movement. Instead, refinement is revealed as something far more powerful, the ability to perceive, adjust, and organise movement in real time. This episode...

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40:35

Restore In Action: Bringing the Body Back to Its...

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/04/17

What if true restoration isn’t about rest… but restoring your body’s ability to move, adapt, and perform? In this episode Joanne and Paul explore restoration, the fourth step in their 5-step fascia-focused approach, and share exclusive video demonstrations from their practitioner training - so you may prefer to watch this on the Joanne Avison YouTube channel - although there's still plenty to be gained here! Restoration is about rebuilding your capacity to move well over time. Without it, eve...

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45:15

Release In Action: From Tension and Compensation to Ease

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/04/10

What if “release” isn’t about relaxing or stretching, but letting go of the patterns that hold you back? In this episode, Joanne Avison and Paul Thornley explore Release as the next step in their fascia-focused approach to movement. This is part of a mini-series on the Five R’s, and includes exclusive video demonstrations from inside their practitioner training, so you can see how this work is applied in real time. So you may prefer to hop on over to the Joanne Avison YouTube channel to ...

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25:25

Recoil In Action: The Foundation of Body Resilience

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/04/01

Why mechanical thinking breaks movement, and how Recoil restores adaptability, resilience, and real-world function in the body. After such a great reaction to their recent episode about Rebound, Joanne and Paul return with the second instalment in this mini-series exploring the Five R’s of myofascial motion, again sharing exclusive demonstration videos from inside their practitioner training! So you may prefer to hop on over to the Joanne Avison YouTube channel to watch this one 📺 (Although

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25:23

Rebound In Action: The Key to Moving Without Strain

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/03/20

For the first time ever Joanne and Paul share real movement training clips from inside the Myofascial Magic In Action practitioner course! 🌟 This exclusive episode explores why strength and stability alone actually don’t create efficient movement, and introduces Rebound as the key to moving without strain. Joanne and Paul illustrate this beautifully with visual clips of their Rebound exercises, offering a rare look at how this work is applied in practice with professionals. So you may prefer

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20:20

Why Lever Mechanics Don’t Explain Human Movement

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/03/13

Why lever mechanics don’t explain human movement. In this episode, Joanne explores the limitations of the biomechanical idea that joints act as simple levers. Drawing on fascia science and anatomical observation, she explains why the human body cannot be accurately understood through linear mechanical models. Many traditional explanations of movement rely on engineering concepts such as levers, pin joints, and mechanical chains. But living bodies are not built like machines! Joanne describes ...

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21:00

Is the Skeleton Really Linear? Rethinking Alignment

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/03/02

Is the human skeleton really linear — or is that a fundamental misunderstanding of anatomy? In this episode, Joanne responds to a detailed YouTube comment that raises important questions about fascia, skeletal organisation, and so-called “linear” underlying structure of the bones. What follows is not a disagreement of style, but a clear challenge to biological inaccuracies that are commonly repeated in movement and manual therapy circles. Are bones straight? Is working to soften the tissue an...

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30:39

Fascia, the Nervous System, and Inner Regulation

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/02/13

How regulation emerges through sensation, awareness, and relational feedback, not force or control. In this final episode of the five-part series on fascia, embodiment, and practical spirituality, Joanne explores the relationship between fascia and the nervous system, and how inner regulation can arise through lived, embodied experience, rather than necessarily needing to use conscious effort or technique. Drawing on fascia science, somatic awareness, and relational regulation, this convers...

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25:18

The Living Geometry of Fascia and Embodied Awareness

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/02/06

How does the body organise itself into movement, perception and awareness? In this episode, Joanne explores fascia as living geometry — not symbolic or abstract, but the organising architecture of embodied awareness… Building on the previous episode about the energetic body, this conversation looks at sacred geometry as a biological reality rather than a spiritual overlay. Joanne reflects on fascia as a self-organising, responsive field through which structure, sensation and meaning continual...

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20:13

The Energetic Body & Fascia: A Bridge to Spiritual...

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/01/30

How fascia connects the energetic body, embodied awareness, and spiritual awakening — explored through lived, sensory experience. In this episode, Joanne explores the energetic body through the living lens of fascia, embodiment, and direct experience. Rather than treating spirituality as something abstract or separate from the body, this conversation invites a grounded understanding of awakening as something sensed, relational, and embodied. The episode reflects on fascia as a responsive fiel...

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9:29

Biomotional Intelligence in Practice: Tuning into...

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/01/23

Biomotional intelligence describes how the body senses, adapts and responds before thought or analysis… In this episode, Joanne explores how awareness, fascia and lived experience shape the body’s innate intelligence in everyday life. She looks at biomotional intelligence not as a concept to understand, but as something to practice. Through embodied awareness, presence and subtle listening, the body reveals meaning that cannot be reduced to data, mechanics or emotional labels. Drawing on fasc...

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13:22

Can Fascia Store Emotional Experience?

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/01/16

Does fascia store emotional experience - or is there something more nuanced at play? Drawing on somatic healing, bodywork therapy and fascia science, Joanne looks at how our perceptions and emotional landscape influence our body’s tissue over time. But rather than framing fascia as something that simply “stores trauma,” she invites a more nuanced view of this incredible tissue as a dynamic, responsive field reflecting how we live, the way we move and what we feel. You’ll also hear how embodim...

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25:01

Presence Over Analysis: The Gnosis Your Body Already...

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/01/09

Gnosis, presence and embodied awareness explored through fascia, somatic practice and living intelligence. In this episode, Joanne reflects on gnosis as a form of knowing that is lived rather than intellectual. Through embodied awareness, breath and presence, she explores how the body reveals an innate intelligence that cannot be reduced to data or analysis. Drawing on fascia therapy, somatic practice and spiritual traditions, this conversation invites a gentle slowing down and a return to in...

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31:11

Stretching, Fascia and the Problem With Misread Science

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2026/01/02

Joanne is joined by clinical anatomist John Sharkey to unpack why stretching, fascia and strength are so often misunderstood in modern fitness, rehabilitation and movement training. Together they examine how misread science can lead to harmful assumptions about flexibility, myofascial release and long-term tissue health. The conversation centres on a widely discussed research paper on long-duration static stretching and strength. Joanne and John carefully clarify what the study does and does ...

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20:37

Fascia, Wholeness and the Magic of Awareness

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2025/12/27

In this reflective festive episode, I explore fascia, wholeness and the magic of awareness through lived experience, embodiment and deep listening. As interest in fascia, consciousness and embodied practice continues to grow, I invite you to look beyond data and analysis and return to the body as an already whole, living system. Drawing on more than thirty years of work in anatomy, embryology, manual therapy and movement education, I reflect on fascia as the medium through which awareness is ...

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30:08

The Prehab Revolution: Rethinking Fitness and Longevity

The Joanne Avison Podcast ·

2025/12/19

In this episode, Joanne and Paul explore why prehab, not rehab, is the missing foundation in modern fitness, functional training, mobility and long-term movement health. If longevity matters to you, how you move now matters more than how hard you train. They unpack why so many people get injured while exercising, how fascia training and mobility work are often misunderstood, and why the body adapts to the shapes and stresses we repeat over time. From gym culture and sports conditioning to reh...

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